Argentina

Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 23:51 UTC
Spain vows to defend Repsol-YPF interests in Argentina; board meeting to decide on YPF profits

Adding fuel to the quarrel between Argentina and Spain for disagreements over Spanish investors administrated YPF, Spanish Industry minister of José Manuel Soria vowed on Tuesday to defend his country’s interests.
Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 22:10 UTC
Falklands recovers community land 30 after the war, following mines’ clearance

Thirty years after the end of the South Atlantic conflict, the people of the Falkland Islands will be recovering an iconic leisure ground which remained banned for three decades because of the mines planted by the retreating Argentine forces that invaded the Islands 2 April 1982.
Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 05:05 UTC
Mujica promises to “fight to the death” for the future of Mercosur

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica promised on Monday to ‘fight to the death’ for the future of Mercosur in spite of the fact that the group’s junior members Uruguay and Paraguay are suffering the most as Argentina and Brazil implement growing hurdles to trade.
Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 01:24 UTC
Rousseff administration will promote “buy Brazilian” policy to defend industry

“As of this year Brazil will follow the US example giving a 25% margin of preference to local goods in government procurement”, said Fernando Pimentel, Minister for Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 01:16 UTC
Argentine truckers call for indefinite strike as soy bean crop was taking off

Argentina’s truckers called Monday an indefinite strike to demand higher pay rates, parking their rigs in protest just as exporters were counting on them to haul freshly harvested soybeans to port.
Monday, March 19th 2012 - 11:18 UTC
Maverick Norwegian yachtsman Jarle Andhoy is in trouble again.

According to press reports from Norway and New Zealand over the weekend, the 54-foot yacht steel yacht Nilaya is reported to be sailing off Antarctica with a broken boom and is heading for an unspecified Argentine Antarctic base to carry out emergency repairs and to refuel.
Monday, March 19th 2012 - 06:54 UTC
Recalling the phrase “Argentines are crooks from the first to the last”

“You were right, or at least that is what Argentines I come across in the street tell me”, said former Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle. In effect Batlle became world famous in 2002 for his phrase describing the River Plate neighbours: “Argentines are a bunch of crooks, from the first to the last, from A to Z”.
Sunday, March 18th 2012 - 19:59 UTC
Paraguay calls on Argentina for “reflection and dialogue” regarding trade restrictions

The Paraguayan government called for “reflection and dialogue” from the Argentine government in order to find a solution to the commercial restrictions in place on imported products, “we don’t need any more walls”.
Sunday, March 18th 2012 - 19:55 UTC
“The Argentine government doesn’t understand what is going on” says former official

Former Argentine Cabinet Chief Alberto Fernández assured on Sunday today that “the Government has difficulties understanding what is going on, and gives fallacious speeches that are far from reality,” and blasted the cutback of subsidies on public services and the bill that seeks to reform the Central Bank's charter
Sunday, March 18th 2012 - 19:48 UTC
Unasur supports Argentine Malvinas and call on UK to resume negotiations

Foreign ministers from the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) reaffirmed their support for Argentina over the Malvinas Islands sovereignty dispute at the annual meeting held in Asunción, Paraguay.